We have no other aim save the protection of the Fortified
Fortress of the Cause of God. We must guard this Fortified Fortress from the
attack of the thoughtless ones. Hence we must all turn our faces to the appointed
Center in order that the Baha'i Unity might be preserved; otherwise in one year
the Baha'is would be divided into a thousand sects. We entertain no other
object except the safety of the Cause of God.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Star of the West,
vol. 5, no. 15, December 12, 1914)